JESÚS CARLOS
MARTÍNEZ BAZÁN

Carlos Martínez Bazán is a Mechanical Engineer from the University of Zaragoza, where he graduated in 1992, and Philosophy Doctor (PhD) in Aerospace Engineering from the University of California in San Diego, USA, a degree he obtained in 1998. After completing his PhD, he held a Visiting Professor position at the Carlos III University of Madrid where he became Associate Professor in the Department of Thermal and Fluid Engineering in 2002. In 2005 he moved to the University of Jaén as head of the Fluid Mechanics Division where he obtained the Full Professor position in 2008. He has recently joined the University of Granada with the aim of creating the Fluid Mechanics Area at this University. He has been responsible for the creation and set-up of the Fluid Mechanics experimental laboratories of the Carlos III University of Madrid and the University of Jaén, which currently have high-level scientific equipment, such as the Laser Doppler Anemometer (LDA), Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV), hot wire anemometry (HW), wind tunnels, water channels, etc. In 2007 he created the Fluid Mechanics group of Jaén, TEP 235, which quickly consolidated within the 10% of the best research groups at the University of Jaén. He has been Adjunt Vice-Chancellor for Quality Management at the University of Jaén from 04/2007 to 06/2011 and Vice-Chancellor for Information and Communication Technologies of the same university from 06/2011 to 05/2015. His areas of expertise include experimental and numerical studies of bubbly flows (bubble formation mechanisms, bubble generation in co-flowing flows, turbulent break-up and dispersion of bubbles, and bubble wake instabilities). Thus, he has contributed to improve the understanding of the of turbulent break-up of drops and bubbles, of relevance in industrial and environmental processes, proposing models of bubble breakage that are currently being implemented in numerical codes applied in chemical engineering, petrochemical industry and oceanography, among others. He is also investigating the stability of blunt-based body wakes with the aim of designing efficient passive control systems and drag reduction devices for heavy vehicles (high tonnage trucks). From an applications point of view, he has co-inventor of three licensed patents, one of them related to the generation of bubbles and two to the design of a device to reduce the drag of heavy vehicles. On the other hand, Dr. Martínez Bazán, taking advantage of his experience in the study of fundamental problems of Fluid Mechanics, has started a new line of research in the characterization of biological flows, in particular the flow of Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) in collaboration with researchers from the University of California in San Diego, USA (Juan C. Lasheras (RIP) and Antonio L. Sánchez). Carlos Martínez Bazán has four six-year research periods (100%, the last one granted for the 2013-2018 period) and one technological one (2010-2015 period).